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Bose A.;Vijayaraghavan R.;Cowley A.;Cherman V.;Varela Pedreira O.;Tanner B.;Danilewsky A.;De Wolf I.;McNally P.
2016
April
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology
Nondestructive Monitoring of Die Warpage in Encapsulated Chip Packages
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Components integrated circuit packaging manufacturing technology packaging semiconductor device manufacture semiconductor device packaging
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© 2016 IEEE. We describe an X-ray diffraction imaging technique for nondestructive, in situ measurement of die warpage in encapsulated chip packages at acquisition speeds approaching real time. The results were validated on a series of samples with known inbuilt convex die warpage, and the measurement of wafer bow was compared with the results obtained by optical profilometry. We use the technique to demonstrate the impact of elevated temperature on a commercially sourced micro quad flat nonlead chip package and show that the strain becomes locked in at a temperature between 94 °C and 120 °C. Using synchrotron radiation at the Diamond Light Source, warpage maps for the entire 2.2 mm × 2.4 mm × 150 - μm Si die were acquired in 50 s, and individual line scans in times as short as 500 ms.
2156-3950
10.1109/TCPMT.2016.2527060
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